The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-05
TALK ABOUT MEN.
Gossip and Information Regarding Persons
About Whom Things Are incidentally Said.

Representative Foster, of Madison county is
as full of oratory as Kidd's Elocution, revised
edition. Thus far no bill, motion or resolution
has CONG tssfere the House that Mr.. Foster has
not got up to say something upon. The other
day newspaper man started to keep tally Of
the number of times the Representative from
Madison would yell, ''Mr. Speaker at the much
suffering Mr.. Sayre, but after filling up large
notebook with tallies he was compelled to sus-
pend from sheer exhaustion, while Mr.. Foster
remained as fresh as a daisy Every member
who desires to say anything has struggle with
Mr. Foster for the floor. and were it not for
Speaker Sayres discriminating impartiality the
entire Brewer report would be filled up with re-
marks by Mr.. Foster. The member from Madi-
son sits lightly in his chair ready to jump to his
feet and fill every hiatus in the proceedings with
his ''Mr Speaker" When anyone else is speak
ing he turns and twists about in his anxiety, so
that it must be really distressing to his trowsers
unless they are reinforced at the basement. He
wears no beard on his long, thin face, and his
hair is very blonde, but he has pleasant voice,
and is always good -humored.
Senator Nicholas Ensley was somewhat sur
prised yesterday morning, onopening his copy of
the Indianapolis Journal, to find that his name
appeared among those who absented themselves
from the joint convention of the previous day.
when, as a matter of fact, he was present, in the
front rank of the faithful, as he has always
| been. Senator Ensey is the Senator from De-
Kalb and Noble counties, and is now serving the
last two years Of his term. He is probably the
best known man in DeKalb county. He was
not born in the county, but was brought there
! by his parents when eight months old, as he was
| born in Seneca county, Ohio, on the 28th of
February, 184l. Previous to his legislative ex
| perience he was elected county treasurer twice,
| overcoming Democratic majorities. He is a
| veteran of the Forty fourth Indiana Regiment
| and served four years He was lieutenant of
| Company K of that regiment He is now in
| mercantile business at Auburn where he is also
| one OF the stockholders of the Farmers Bank
| Mr.. Ensley was opposed to the compromise made
| with the Green Smith gang, but finally &C.
quiesced in it, as he could not do otherwise.
In the front row of seats, and directly under
| the Speakers eye. is the Representative from
| Orange and Crawford. The occupant of the seat,
benevolent-visaeed gentleman, wearing spec
tacles, is the first Republican that ever repre-
sented either of those counties in the Indiana
General Assembly, Shadrack B. A. Gender. This
somewhat startling aggregation Of initials
| and the prenornial "Reminiscences of the biblical
fiery furnace is an honored inheritance and Cap
tain Conder wears it gracefully. Over fifty years
| ago his grandfather, for whom he was named,
| represented Orange county, as Jackson Demo
crat in 1885 and 1886 Captain Gender was born
in 1929 near Orleans, Orange county, where he
was raised on farm and given the edu-
cation of a country school, He is
| now a lumber dealer and engaged in running a
sawmill. Four years ago he was elected sheriff
of Orange county He served his term of two
years and declined re election. He is a veteran
of the Mexican and Of the late war. He went
into the Mexican war when but seventeen years
old, in the Sixth United States Infantry. He
enlisted in the war for the Union in the Twenty.
| fourth Indiana, and afterwards raised a com
pany for the Sixty-sxth Indiana and was elect
ed first lieutenant. He served until the close oil
the war, marching with Sherman through
Georgia and taking part in the grand review al
Washington